Hints and tips:
...As Israelis mourned their dead and struggled to come to terms with the darkest day in the Jewish state’s history, Arab social media was buzzing with variations of its own take on Hamas’s deadly attack: “...
...The group’s leader, Abdel-Malek al-Houthi, on Thursday cautioned Arab states not to join the fray and added: “Any American attack will not remain without a response.”...
...An Arab diplomat said Turkey, Egypt and Qatar were liaising with the Biden administration as they talk to Israel and Hamas....
...“Qatar’s diplomatic efforts are crucial at this time,” Tzachi Hanegbi said in a social media post....
...One Arab diplomat says oil-rich Gulf states, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, could help finance Gaza’s postwar construction but adds: “They won’t invest unless they know what...
...When he wrote on his website, “I believe in the United States of America. I believe in a strong national defence....
...States.”...
...Biden administration officials have considered whether they could invoke the 14th amendment of the US Constitution to continue issuing new debt to pay social security recipients, bondholders, government...
...In the United States....
...Now see the many state attorneys-general (acolytes, no doubt of Alito et. al.) who want to sanction corporations that adopt ESG....
...That actually is undergoing a big review right now in the United States....
...Here’s their minister of state for foreign affairs, Adel al-Jubeir, talking to Fox News. Adel al-JubeirSaudi Arabia does not politicise oil or oil decisions. Oil is not a weapon....
...The recent call by the Biden administration for certain social media to deal with ‘misinformation’ is an ominous portent of things to come....
...“I’m the one who presented it on behalf of the United States to the world,” Powell told Barbara Walters in a 2005 interview after leaving government. “It was painful. It’s painful now”....
...One thing.. and Putin really united people around that....
...Yair Lapid is the first Israeli minister to visit the Gulf state since the so-called Abraham Accords, brokered by the previous US administration, ended decades of diplomatic isolation of the Jewish state...
...The SEC charged the United States Oil Fund, the exchange traded product at the centre of last year’s sub-zero oil market meltdown, and its partner United States Commodity Funds, for “misleading statements...
...In Syria, it was the necessity to prop up Bashar al-Assad to keep Russian presence on the Mediterranean and to keep Syria as a pro-Russian client-state....
...The same, of course, applies to Le Pen et al in Europe. I don’t know Israel nearly well enough to prescribe a solution to the deep-seated Palestinian-Israeli crisis....
...Bernie Sanders, the leftwing senator from Vermont, said on Sunday: “When you have the United States of America putting almost $4bn a year into Israel, we have the right to demand that they respect the human...
...States”....
...Through his laser sharp-focus on Iran, Netanyahu last year reached a historic peace agreement with the United Arab Emirates, the influential Gulf state, and there were signs of a move towards more open ties...
...The Trump administration has also pressured Gulf states to resolve the spat as it seeks to claim a success before its term ends this month....
...Most citizens accept that the state needs revenues to finance public goods such as defence and policing, and essential services including health, education and social security....
...Hala al-Dosari, a US-based Saudi activist, doubted a Biden administration would improve human rights....
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